I don’t think it’s nuts because Kosh is in the wrong side of the 30 and we don’t know how serious his injuries are and Per is retiring at the end of the season. Holding is still a kid. Monreal and Kolasinac are also not CBs.

We do have an idea how serious his injuries are. Koscielny has said he gets daily physio on his Achilles now and expects to do so for the rest of his career.

Anyone who’s had even milder Achilles issues will sympathise, he’s clearly not going to be playing 30+ games for us again. I’m already classing him as a luxury option, to play whenever we can get him in the team.

That was mostly a problem of availability though. Once we get 1-2 of our usual CB starters back we’ll be in a much better position. I’d be more worried if it actually was Koscielny and Mustafi conceding 3 goals against Leicester and even then it was just one game.

His subs were the only good thing today. We looked not ready yet once again.

He is the same who has showed to have a plan B, tactically and not. Arsène Wenger has been the MOTM yesterday: the confirmation of one of his most expensive players bought (Granit Xhaka), Lacazette & Kolasinac very well and changed tactic to back four to win the game.

Wenger, the board, contract guy, whoever; shouldn’t have left it this late to to be dealing with cast offs. Maybe this is the result of a knock on effect of his indecision regarding his position at the club this summer?

According to that reporter from the Mail Wenger is done on the market. That doesn’t surprise me, but it would be very dissapointing if true.

Of course he’s done on the market. This is the guy who famously said bringing in more than two or three players will destabilize the squad.

I’m also not surprised that we’ve found it difficult to get rid of players we don’t want because, presumably, Wenger still has control over outgoings and is probably hesitant to let players like Gibbs or Lucas Perez leave for less than what he believes they are worth.

Signing a striker was important but once we spent the money on a striker, it never looked likely that we’d make another big move. If Madrid or Barcelona have some scrubs that get booted from the club due to other moves maybe Arsene goes for a sneaky bargain. He loves that.